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Haven't posted in a couple weeks. I have not been practicing much, but what was interesting was when I went back to practice I felt like I had a lot more control and was more aware of how much air I had and could be much more "lazy" and get more projection and range. I sang the VR song Slither - totally mixed up some lyrics and changed the melody here or there and this is the result. Let me know what you think

Thanks for the tips! I will start doing descending sirens today - from what I understand it's like a "controlled freefall" to get back into chest. What I've been doing is practicing chest softer - because with a mic who cares how loud you are, it's about the overall tone quality. I work on singing head voice notes louder and now can do a good head A4 that isn't belty and a decent G4 to blend from chest. Problem is those are about where my chest tops out so its hard to "flip" into depending on the tesitura of a line/song. Yeah, my voice is way heavier than Perry. When I first heard Wheel in the Sky, I thought it was a girl singing! I'm going to mess around with an overall more forward placement and see how that goes. I'll give the Axl Open Arms a shot next weekend! That distorition is hard to do because in my ear it sounds NOTHING like it projects - its more about finding that spot and I have A LOT to LEARN with it as the temptation is to pull chest up with it and I think that clip tops out around C,C#5ish. We'll see how it goes!

Hey guys, I've uploaded links to some of my practice clips. I've been doing sirens, major triads, scales, and singing bits of songs in different keys over the past two weeks. I vary the vowels, however, on sirens I usually start on EE and go into EH as in "yeah" around G4. Here are the bits: I do the first one slow and always stop around G - I don't want to force tension, then fall back to fry. Coming down back to chest is hard, not sure how to do yet - these are mostly ascending. Small break in some, but not as bad as I thought for a first attempt. After sirens I usually do a bit of a higher song down an octave, then up in head voice to get used to the different sensations. It can be a bit shreiky - right now I'm not concerning myself with tone of my voice, just letting everything happen. I'm focusing on making it feel easy and the overall coordination of register changes. I release to A a bit much on this - heard Perry do it like that on a live recording and felt like trying it. Open Arms around with Break on Thru. I can do an Axlish grit higher up, the only problem is the lower 2nd attempt its really hard to bounce into without muscling around G4. Just for fun. Does it sound like I'm on the right track?

:D I really like this - Its impossible not to smile listening to the Bee Gees good flow from beginning to end and sounds comfortable for you to sing

Hey Ronws thanks for commenting - I'm glad you liked my first attempt. In the coming weeks I will put a full take up for dissection. As far as my sound goes - I make no attempt to sound like the original singers of songs I cover. This can be frustrating at times, especially when my voice gets a bit caught in my chest, but I trust it will be helpful in the long run. I think the biggest battle is assimilating your influences, but still sounding like YOU. This relates a lot to one of your other threads - besides - Plant's biggest influence was Elvis, F Mercury loved Plant, Dickinson loved Ian Gillan: do any of them sound alike?? HELL NO!! :P

Hey Guys This is a link of me singing a bit of Love me 2 Times and The Lemon Song by Doors/Zep with my band. It was taken from a impromptu rehearsal on my iphone that I then transferred to Youtube, ripped the mp3 and transefered it to Soundcloud. This is where I am after 2 months of singing. It's alright. I could not hear myself as we had no monitors, so my intonation is funky, especially coming off the C in Lemon Song. I think I managed to capture Plant's intensity on that bit well, and it was interesting that when I sang that, it felt really weak and Mickey Mousey. It was surprising to hear how trusting myself and resonance gave it a lot more power when I listened back later. Thoughts and room for improvement ideas?